…and now our penultimate Hella West Coast Report:

http://drop.io/hellawcr5

in which there were no major technical blunders, yet learning of a commercial venue called “Japan Town Mall,” located in some place called “Japan Town” in or near Oakland somehow confused me.  East Coast Richard is just too used to always hearing about China Town when it comes to the Bay Area.  Maybe Peter will edit this entry or add a new one to embellish?  I mean, I’m still wondering if it’s like all Japanese/Oriental owned and operated, if it looks different architecturally/design-wise from the usual caucasian owned/operated malls one typically experiences up and down the East Coast, and does the greater majority of shops feature items exclusively connected to Japanese culture in some way?  Or was it mainly a mall like Cary Towne Mall, but in Japan Town?

Here’s the link to the theatre where Peter went to see Street Car Named Desire,

and as we can see from his photos, The Castro is one of those neat old theaters, like our Carolina in Durham*, but with the interior layout preserved:

       


The local Bay Area artist/tune Peter featured for us, this week from Deep Magic, was *really* good.  If you missed it, you can grab the mp3 from the drop.io link above.  I suppose technically the track would be considered “noise,” but definitely *not* harsh: Overall harmonious, kind of an ambient drony thing, with a shot of gentle percussion as it develops.

 

Next week is our final, so be sure and tune in!  Thanks fer lissnin’!

 

 

*(The Carolina’s interior layout was preserved for day-to-day film screening until it closed in 1989 for the remodel, that presents it as we have it today.  At the Carolina, they *did* do restoration of the interior, but they also broke up the space, and now they primarily use those newly-created, tiny, little rooms for most of their film screening, which for me has been a a summary disappointment.  I know they still screen a film in the actual theater every now and again at the Carolina, but not enough for me to be happy.  Those tiny little screening rooms have been a huge letdown, for me, at any rate.)